Is­raeli airstrikes in and around Beirut caused sig­nif­i­cant dam­age to the coun­try’s largest pub­lic hos­pi­tal and killed more than a dozen peo­ple, Lebanese health of­fi­cials said, as Hezbol­lah launched a bar­rage of rock­ets in­to cen­tral Is­rael hours be­fore U.S. Sec­re­tary of State Antony Blinken ar­rived in the re­gion.

Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) coun­tries could ben­e­fit from a de­ci­sion by the In­ter­na­tion­al Mon­e­tary Fund (IMF) Mon­day to ap­prove a set of re­forms to its con­ces­sion­al lend­ing fa­cil­i­ties and an as­so­ci­at­ed fund­ing strat­e­gy to pre­serve the fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tion’s abil­i­ty to pro­vide ad­e­quate sup­port to low-in­come coun­tries (LD­Cs) over the long term.

The Sen­ate yes­ter­day ho­n­oured two for­mer mem­bers who have died, Ham­let “Yaxsie” Joseph and Cyn­thia Al­fred, re­flect­ing on their sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tions to na­tion­al life.

Liv­ing Wa­ter Com­mu­ni­ty di­rec­tor Rhon­da Main­got is thank­ing God that the min­istry go­ing de­spite its fi­nan­cial con­straints.

The Op­po­si­tion Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress has ex­pressed se­ri­ous con­cerns re­gard­ing the bid­ding process for the Petrotrin re­fin­ery in Pointe-a-Pierre, and is de­mand­ing that the pro­ce­dure be scrapped en­tire­ly and that a crim­i­nal foren­sic in­ves­ti­ga­tion be ini­ti­at­ed.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has la­belled do­mes­tic vi­o­lence and bul­ly­ing a “na­tion­al cri­sis.” She made the state­ment while speak­ing at a Di­vali func­tion at her Siparia con­stituen­cy of­fice on Sun­day evening, say­ing she had recog­nised the alarm­ing rise in fa­tal as­saults.

While En­er­gy Min­is­ter Stu­art Young and Min­is­ter of Youth De­vel­op­ment Fos­ter Cum­mings have emerged as fron­trun­ners for the po­lit­i­cal lead­er­ship of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment, at least two po­lit­i­cal sci­en­tists have tossed Bri­an Man­ning in­to the mix.

There were mixed re­ac­tions yes­ter­day af­ter Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley named Stu­art Young act­ing Prime Min­is­ter yet again, as he left the coun­try to at­tend the Com­mon­wealth Heads of Gov­ern­ment Meet­ing (CHOGM) 2024 in Samoa.

A TTPS-is­sued badge and iden­ti­fi­ca­tion card of a po­lice­man, who has been on ex­tend­ed sick leave for over a year, as well as po­lice tac­ti­cal wear, were among sev­er­al law en­force­ment items found dur­ing a raid in Ma­yaro ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing.

Po­lice of­fi­cers lined up out­side the Po­lice Stores De­part­ment along Wright­son Road, Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day to re­turn their tac­ti­cal uni­forms in ex­change for the grey shirt and blue pants.

PDP po­lit­i­cal leader Wat­son Duke is call­ing on Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine to apol­o­gise to To­ba­go moth­ers for blam­ing them for the is­land’s in­creas­ing crime rate.

Gun­men dis­cussed spar­ing the life of a woman and her five chil­dren as they gunned down her hus­band in the Heights of Gua­napo ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing.